Sports physiotherapy

From the weekend sports player to the seasoned professional, sports injuries are a common occurrence in life. Flex Out Physiotherapy is committed to providing clients with fast, effective and thorough assessments and treatment programs to get clients back in the game as soon as possible. We work with you to make sure the real cause of your condition is corrected and the chance of future problems is minimised. In order to achieve this, physiotherapy services may include the provision of:

• Soft tissue mobilisation

• Joint mobilisation / manipulation

• Muscle stretching and strengthening

• Proprioceptive exercises

• Biomechanical assessments

• Sports taping and bracing

 

Work injuries and rehabilitation

All physiotherapists at Flex Out Physiotherapy are WorkCover accredited therapists who regularly treat and manage Workers Compensation injuries. As part of this service, our physiotherapists are able to perform: Workplace assessments to help determine the type and availability of suitable duties. This may then help the nominated treating doctor to determine a safe return to work on appropriate duties; Functional assessment to determine a workers functional capacity and their suitability to return to work or another job;Pre-employment screening, to assess a workers ability to safely perform the functional components of the prospective job.

 

Back and neck pain

Trauma, injuries, poor posture and arthritis are common causes of neck and back pain. Flex Out Physiotherapists are specifically trained in the assessment and treatment of presentations including whiplash, disc injuries, fractures, osteoarthritis and instability. Treatments are tailored to individual needs and include hands on treatment as well as the provision of specific stretching and strengthening exercises.

 

Post-operative rehabilitation

Flex Out Physiotherapy provides follow up physiotherapy for clients who have been recently injured or discharged from hospital. Our physiotherapists are experienced in managing a range of neurological, cardiorespiratory and orthopaedic conditions.

 

Home visiting

To ease the burden of travel and organising transportation, Flex Out Physiotherapy offers a complete home visit service for those patients unable to attend our clinics. As part of this service, a physiotherapist will bring the necessary equipment for the home visit, including massage cream, towels, and exercise equipment. Home visits can be arranged for times most suited to you.

 

Corporate services

Our experienced physiotherapists are available to provide on-site power point presentations, demonstrations and assessments in regards to ergonomics, work station set-up, injury prevention and manual handling training. Education seminars can be tailored to your specific needs, whether it be 1:1 or for large groups.

 

Onsite workplace physiotherapy

Currently, Flex Out Physiotherapy provides onsite physiotherapy services to a number of companies within Victoria and NSW. At each site, our physiotherapists have developed individual programs for employers, based on the nature of their employee tasks. The workplace needs have been assessed through constant communication between the physiotherapists, area managers and the occupational health and safety team. These services are constantly reviewed and modified to ensure the best possible service is provided to all stakeholders. The success of our onsite programs was demonstrated when in 2006 the Flex Out Physiotherapy OH and S Program at Carter Holt Harvey Timber Mill was a finalist in the Victoria Worksafe Awards.

 

Falls prevention

One in three adults over age 65 falls each year. Of all the fractures requiring a hospital stay, about 50% are the result of falls. Flex Out Physiotherapy designs effective exercise programs to improve strength, balance and functional mobility, in accordance with current falls prevention and treatment guidelines. We also advise on mobility aids and optimising client safety while moving around at home.

 

Dry needling

Dry Needling involves the application of acupuncture needles into tight painful myofascial areas known as ‘trigger Points’ to elicit a healing response in these tissues. Dry Needling is different to traditional acupuncture as it is not necessarily aimed at specific acupuncture points, does not usually involve Meridians or relations to internal organs as does traditional acupuncture needling. Dry needling has been proven to be a very effective way of relaxing spasmed muscles, reducing inflammation and relieving pain. 

 

Casting, splinting and orthotics

Flex Out Physiotherapy supply and fit a variety of synthetic and waterproof casts and thermoplastic splints. These include: 

• Fibreglass casts in a variety of colours

• Fully water proof gortex casts

• Heat mouldable foot orthotics

• A variety of custom made and ‘off-the-shelf’ thermoplastic splints and guards​

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Shockwave therapy

Flex Out Physiotherapy is pleased to offer our clients’ access to Shockwave Therapy (SWT). SWT is a promising treatment for tendon injury. There is research evidence supporting the use of SWT in treating common tendon injuries, such as Achilles tendinopathy, plantar fasciitis and shoulder calcific tendinopathy. There is good evidence that SWT improves treatment outcomes in Achilles tendinopathy over and above exercise.

 

Feldenkrais Method

What Is the Feldenkrais Method?

The Feldenkrais Method® facilitates learning about movement, posture and breathing to ultimately increase the ease and range of our movement, improve flexibility and coordination. “The aim is a body that is organised to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular strength but increased consciousness of how it works.” - M. Feldenkrais

 

Who Can Benefit?

• People of all ages, from babies and children through to senior citizens

• People with recurrent injury and pain or simply wishing to improve performance

• People whose work may involve repetitive tasks; People interested in preventing or relieving stiffness pain or strain

• People living with difficulties such as Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, injury or learning difficulties.

 

What Are the Benefits?

• Improve and maintain health and well-being

• Greater clarity in sensing, thinking and feeling

• Discover how habitual posture can contribute to pain and limit movement

• Learn new and easier ways to do familiar tasks

• Improve balance, increase flexibility and coordination

• Breathe more fully and deeply; Recognise and ease tension

 

Hydrotherapy

Flex Out Physiotherapy offers fully supervised hydrotherapy at the Murray Valley Private Hospital hydrotherapy pool. The physiotherapist is in the pool with you at all times and will guide you through your rehabilitation program. All that is required before starting your hydrotherapy program is to fill in a medical questionnaire and a land based pre-assessment to allow the physiotherapist to design a highly individualised and effective program. Patients covered under Veterans Affairs are entitled to attend hydrotherapy as are Workers Compensation patients with prior approval that we arrange through your insurance company.

 

Lymphoedema management

Flex Out Physiotherapy's lymphoedema management service offers: 

• Comprehensive initial assessment 

• Individually tailored treatment programs

• Complex lymphatic therapy

• Education

• Manual lymph drainage

• Exercise prescription

• Graduated compression garment prescriptions

 

Ante- and post-natal physiotherapy

Flex Out Physiotherapists specialise in the assessment and treatment of pregnancy related conditions before birth and also offer a postnatal continence service following birth. Many conditions that some may consider to be just aches and pains of pregnancy can be very effectively treated by physiotherapy.  

 

Real time Ultrasound

Real Time Ultrasound allows the production of an image of the stabilising muscles on a screen and allows you and your physiotherapist to watch the muscles work while they are being exercised. This allows accurate and measurable assessment of the muscles and helps you learn how to exercise the stabilising muscles correctly. It is particularly useful in the areas of womens health and low back pain.

 

​Pelvic Floor and Women's Health Physiotherapy

Pelvic floor Physiotherapists have specialised training to help women and men when something is not right “down there”. They can help men and women living with bladder & bowel dysfunction, pain with sexual intercourse, pelvic floor pain & hip/groin pain, painful urination or pre and post gynaecological surgery. They also have experience in a broad range of musculoskeletal issues associated with the life stages of pregnancy, birth, postpartum, lactation and menopause.

 

Who Can Benefit from seeing a Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist?

• Men or women with bowel incontinence

• Men or women with urgency of their bladder or bowel

• Men or women waking throughout the night to urinate (nocturia)

• People with weak pelvic floor muscles

• People who experience painful intercourse

• People with pelvic pain – vaginal, vulvar, rectal, hip and groin;Women with prolapse of bladder, bowel or vagina

• Defecation difficulties & chronic constipation

• Pre-natal women with – low back, neck, rib, pelvic and other joint pain, incontinence

• Post-natal women following caesarian birth, pelvic floor trauma during birth, perineal tearing, post birthing pain, bladder or bowel dysfunction and abdominal muscle separation

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Spinal Fitness Classes

The Flex Out Spinal Fitness Classes run once a week for an hour, and incorporate all the strength and stretching exercises you ‘should’ be doing for your back, but often don’t. The class combines floor exercises, fitball exercises, yoga based stretches and utilises the Pilate’s principle of abdominal control and breathing. Classes run for 1 hour, once per week for 10 weeks. Early Morning, mid-morning, and evening classes available Monday to Friday. 

 

Neurological rehabilitation

Flex Out Physiotherapy's has clinican's specifically trained in the Bobath method which provides her with a unique skill set to assess and treat adults with neurological conditions such as stroke, Parkinsons Disease, spinal cord injury and brain injury.